Stone-faced Kit Harington confirms his character WAS killed in Game of Thrones... but expertly sidesteps questions on whether he's coming back
He's definitely dead. But that doesn't mean Jon Snow is gone from Game Of Thrones.
Kit Harington confirmed that his character was 100 per cent killed at the end of season five in an interview with BBC Breakfast on Tuesday. But as the interviewer tried to trap him into revealing he will come back 'in some respect', the 29-year-old parried him off with all the expertise of a dancing master.
'I think anyone who wants to know what happens in season six has to wait until it comes out,' he replied stone-faced, when asked why he was in the promotional material and why he was spotted on set. 'All I can tell you is Jon Snow... is dead,' he said. 'He died at the end of last season.'
'But his spirit lives on...?' the interviewer harried. 'Who knows? We'll have to wait and see. It's going to be a very exciting season,' he recited, before adding with the slightest of smirks: 'so I'm led to believe.'
Even general questions about the show, the actor carefully answered just like any other unconnected fan. 'I think they usually release it around April, so I'm expecting it to come out then,' he said. 'I can't wait to see it. I'm really looking forward to it.'
The interviewer threw one last desperate bolas in an attempt to trip him up: 'You're not going to miss it?' 'I'm not going to miss it,' he stoically repeated, knowing any other answer would have given the game away.
He insisted the fact that beloved characters - such as his own - could die at any point in the brutally unpredictable series was what made it such an exciting show.
'It has been a theme for the show and I think it's what makes the show very exciting, it's what people love about it; there's no safety there, there's no one lead character that's going to make it through,' he said. 'You can't trust that anyone will do that.'
Earlier in the interview, Kit admitted he didn't think the Game Of Thrones would ever be a success, because the source material was so 'bizarre'... and his original wig was so bad.
'I remember what I thought when I first read it, which was [this is] the most bizarre thing I've read, ever,' he said. I thought: how is this going to work? Is this ever going to work? Are people ever going to watch this?
'So I think it was a really pleasant surprise for us all when it took off the way it did.'
He continued: 'I had a horrible wig on in the pilot, it just didn't work. No one has ever seen it, it's in some back room somewhere, and I'd like it to stay there I think.'
Game Of Thrones returns with season six on April 24.
